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Final Compilations & Remixes

Last Updated: 2023/09/30
Status: Active
Active Years: ~1982-1987 / 1992-1997 / 2000-Present
Bio: One of Justin Broadrick's first projects, started at a very-young age, Final released several tapes in the early-to-mid '80s through his own Post-Mortem label. The project was shelved around 1987 to make way for Justin's busy schedule with Head of David but was resurrected in 1992. The project's first release on a major label contained mostly-new material with the exception of one track, combining 1980s material into one lengthy song.

Ben Green and Diarmuid Dalton were present during some of the writing/recording sessions between 1993 and 1997. After a pair of LPs, one EP and some limited 7" releases, the project was sidelined again resulting in a long hiatus. During this break, however, Justin was still working with Dalton on material and after more than six years of delays, Final was given third life in 2006. In the years since, this has been one of his more-prolific outputs. While he hasn't collaborated with Dalton as this project since 2009, Justin has released remix material under the Final guise and also worked alongside Dirk Serries (Fear Falls Burning, et al.) and Richard Ramirez (Black Leather Jesus, et al.) along the way.

Final remains an open-ended outlet for Justin, often swaying between minimalistic ambience, power-electronic noise and various genres in between.




One
Released: 1993
Label: ? (1993)
Subharmonic (1994)
Format/CAT#: (CD) ?
(CD) 26617-7014-2
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Track Listing
1. (3:30) Fall
2. (23:36) Light Underground / Dark Overground
3. (3:46) Awake But Numb
4. (8:05) Despotic
5. (7:53) Round Our Bodies
6. (3:17) Hold Me
7. (8:09) Death / Love Dealer
8. (21:34) 1983-1987 (Edits) UK
8. (19:30) 1983-1987 (Edits) US
Notes
* This material was all written around the time of its release. The only material written prior was 1983-1987 (Edits).
* The first release of One in the UK had a running time of 79:59. When it was issued by Subharmonic in the US in 1994, the time was trimmed to 77:48. This extra time was shaven from the last track, 1983-1987 (Edits).


Flow/Openings
Released: 1995
Label: Manifold Records
Format/CAT#: (7") Man703
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Track Listing
1. (7:46) Flow
2. (7:23) Openings
Notes
* Flow/Openings was a limited release. Only 1,000 copies were pressed.


Solaris
Released: 1996
Label: Alleysweeper
Format/CAT#: (CD) none
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Track Listing
1. (13:21) Arise
2. (9:51) Light
3. (12:29) Solaris
Notes
* Recorded in the summer of 1995, this EP clocks in around 30 minutes and saw Final producing more minimal material.
* Re-issued with a bonus track later. Info below.


2
Released: 1996
Label: Sentrax/Rawkus
Format/CAT#: (CD) SNTX 3001 CD
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Track Listing
1. (3:25)
*******
2. (6:08)
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3. (8:04)
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4. (8:39)
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5. (7:59)
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6. (3:13)
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7. (2:32)
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8. (24:43)
(     )
9. (7:34)
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Notes
* Yes, those are the track titles.
* All songs written by Justin between 1993-1995 except tracks 4 & 8, which were written by Justin and Ben. Track 5 was written by Justin and Diarmuid Dalton.


Urge/Fail
Released: 1996
Label: Fever Pitch
Format/CAT#: (7") FP06
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Track Listing
1. (5:43) Urge
2. (5:40) Fail
Notes
* Limited-edition 7" released on October 1st, 1996. This was limited to 250 copies and was hand-numbered.
* A re-issue came later, also limited, likely to the same quantities.


The First Millionth of a Second
Released: 1997
Label: Manifold Records
Format/CAT#: (CD) MANCD16
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Track Listing
1. (5:13) Critical Thresholds
2. (6:12) Electron
3. (5:08) Quark
4. (11:50) New Species
5. (12:27) Subatomic
6. (11:54) Foundations
7. (11:40) Pathway
Notes
* Originally titled The First Ten-Millionth of a Second, the name was changed before release.
* Label Manifold Records wrote about this release: "It's [sic] poor distribution and availability is due mainly to a relationship we had with a large distributor that went sour. Lesson learned: never extend a third of the pressing to one distributor because what happens if you don't get paid? When you run a tiny label, losing your ass on one release breaks the chain of the next release having funds to propel it toward completion.


Solaris
Released: 1998
Label: Alleysweeper
Format/CAT#: (CD) Inv-ASR 9016
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Track Listing
1. (13:21) Arise
2. (9:51) Light
3. (12:29) Solaris
4. (29:46) Dying Star
Notes
* Released September 29th, 1998, the re-issue of this EP features a 30-minute long extra, "Dying Star". This was recorded by Justin and Ben in late 1995.


3
Released: 2006
Label: Neurot Recordings
Format/CAT#: (2xCD) NR042
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Track Listing
Disc 1
1. (3:21) The Light Orchestra
2. (4:51) Seasick
3. (5:06) Negative Youth
4. (2:47) Laughing Stock
5. (3:59) Hollow
6. (3:04) Little Pictures
7. (11:06) Spinning Top
8. (3:12) Open Air
9. (2:40) Eden
10. (2:38) Golden
11. (3:30) Cascades
12. (5:59) After
13. (3:10) We Glowed
14. (3:59) Sorry
15. (1:54) Not Real
16. (12:16) Long Wave
Disc 1
1. (3:35) Covered
2. (8:59) Barely Here
3. (6:36) Remnants
4. (6:08) Confusion
5. (5:55) Long Lost
6. (4:31) Not Real 2
7. (5:47) Trees
8. (5:12) Free
9. (4:22) To The Heavens
10. (6:09) All We Ever Do
11. (17:34) Northpole
Notes
* After more than 6 years of delays, this was released in February 2006 through Neurot Recordings.


Infinite Guitar 1
Released: 2007 / 2012
Label: Avalanche Recordings
Format/CAT#: (CD) AREC003
(Digital) n/a
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Track Listing
1. (5:02) Untitled
2. (9:48) Untitled
3. (8:46) Untitled
4. (11:20) Untitled
5. (9:40) Untitled
Notes
* Extremely-limited CDR sold at live Final and Jesu shows, only 60 of this item were made, all handmade and numbered.
* Live guitar improvisations using guitar and effects only, May 2007.
* Made available digitally in August of 2012.


Infinite Guitar 2
Released: 2007 / 2012
Label: Avalanche Recordings
Format/CAT#: (CD) AREC004
(Digital) n/a
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Track Listing
1. (13:28) Untitled
2. (21:08) Untitled
3. (11:54) Untitled
Notes
* Extremely-limited CDR sold at live Final and Jesu shows, only 60 of this item were made, all handmade and numbered.
* Live guitar improvisations using guitar and effects only, May 2007.
* Made available digitally in August of 2012.


Guitar & Bass Improvisations Volume 1
Released: 2007 / 2012
Label: Avalanche Recordings
Format/CAT#: (CD) AREC005
(Digital) n/a
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Track Listing
1. (10:30) Untitled
2. (15:50) Untitled
3. (8:04) Untitled
4. (20:24) Untitled
Notes
* Extremely-limited CDR sold at live Final and Jesu shows, only 60 of this item were made, all handmade and numbered.
* Live guitar and bass improvisations featuring Justin and Diarmiud Dalton using guitar, bass and effects only. Recorded June 2007.
* Made available digitally in August of 2012.


Guitar & Bass Improvisations Volume 2
Released: 2007 / 2012
Label: Avalanche Recordings
Format/CAT#: (CD) AREC006
(Digital) n/a
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Track Listing
1. (6:44) Untitled
2. (8:42) Untitled
3. (30:50) Untitled
Notes
* Extremely-limited CDR sold at live Final and Jesu shows, only 60 of this item were made, all handmade and numbered.
* Live guitar and bass improvisations featuring Justin and Diarmiud Dalton using guitar, bass and effects only. Recorded June 2007.
* Made available digitally in August of 2012.


Infinite Guitar / Guitar & Bass Improvisations Set
Format: Cat #: Year: Label:
(4xCDR) AREC011 2008 Avalanche Recordings

Track Listing
See individual releases above
Notes
* Containing all four of the improvisational discs (Infinite Guitar 1 & 2 and Guitar & Bass Improvisations Volume 1 & 2), this was released in a four-cd DVD case. Limited to 150 copies only and hand numbered, this was sold out almost immediately.


Fade Away
Format: Cat #: Year: Label:
(Digital) AREC012 2008 Avalanche Recordings

Track Listing
1. (17:24) Old Soldiers
2. (7:44) Never Die
3. (10:04) They Just
4. (12:20) Fade Away
Notes
* The first digital download-only release, this was available in May 2008 in MP3 or FLAC form. These four tracks were recorded in April of 2008.


Afar
Format: Cat #: Year: Label:
(12") AREC010 2008 Avalanche Recordings
(Digital) AREC010 2008 Avalanche Recordings

Track Listing
1. (6:51) 1
2. (5:29) 2
3. (4:52) 3
4. (7:21) 4
5. (5:31) 5
6. (5:58) 6
7. (6:09) 7
8. (7:11) 8
Notes
* Limited picture disc released solely on vinyl through Avalanche Recordings. Limited to 500 copies, this features Justin and no other musicians. Unlike most of his releases, guitars are not used in this recording.
* Vinyl out in August of 2008. Later made available digitally in October of the same year.


Dead Air
Format: Cat #: Year: Label:
(CD) URSK7 2008 Utech Records

Track Listing
1. (5:04) Slow Air
2. (6:42) Caved
3. (6:49) Fearless Systems
4. (7:38) Disordered
5. (7:16) Inanimate Air
6. (6:05) Subterrane
7. (10:39) Smeared Air
8. (9:07) Descendre
9. (5:10) Dead Air
Notes
* Released on the 22nd of November, 2008, this material was written by Justin alone between 2005 and 2008. This was limited to 750 and was the third Final release of 2008.
* The cover painting was done by Stephen Kasner.



Vinyl Cover

CD Cover
Reading All The Right Signals Wrong
Format: Cat #: Year: Label:
(12") NOQ018 2009 No Quarter Records
(CD) NOQ018 2009 No Quarter Records

Track Listing
1. (8:42) Right Signal
2. (16:00) Wrong Signal
3. (12:48) Stop At Red
4. (9:22) Green
5. (8:24) Right Signal (alt. mix/edit)
6. (9:29) Wrong Signal (alt. mix/edit)
7. (8:54) Stop At Red (alt. mix/edit)
8. (5:15) Green (alt. mix/edit)
Notes
* Four-song, limited-edition vinyl (1,500 copies) released on the 17th of February, 2009.
* Finally issued on CD on the 18th of August, 2009. This version contained a new cover and four alternative, exclusive mixes, listed as tracks 5-8 here.


Infinite Guitar 3 / Guitar & Bass Improvisations 3
Format: Cat #: Year: Label:
(2xCD) AREC018 2009 Avalanche Recordings
(Digital) AREC018 2009 Avalanche Recordings

Track Listing
Disc 1: Infinite Guitar 3
1. (5:07) Untitled
2. (5:53) Untitled
3. (5:50) Untitled
4. (3:43) Untitled
5. (5:49) Untitled
6. (3:37) Untitled
7. (3:15) Untitled
8. (4:12) Untitled
9. (4:17) Untitled
10. (5:25) Untitled
Disc 2: Guitar & Bass Improvisations 3
1. (12:17) Untitled
2. (3:42) Untitled
3. (6:10) Untitled
4. (5:06) Untitled
5. (6:32) Untitled
6. (6:18) Untitled
7. (8:12) Untitled
Notes
* Double CD featuring the third installment of both Infinite Guitar and Guitar & Bass Improvisations. The latter features Diarmuid Dalton again. The CD, released in July of 2009, was limited to 500. Digital distribution followed in August.


Final + Fear Falls Burning
Format: Cat #: Year: Label:
(2x12") CORE085 2009 Conspiracy Records

Track Listing
1. (11:49) Untitled
2. (12:29) Untitled
3. (12:56) Untitled
4. (9:58) Untitled
Notes
* Collaborative double-vinyl release with Dirk Serries of Fear Falls Burning. This was limited to 500 copies: 300 were issued in standard black, 125 in silver and another 75 in clear.
* Justin later worked with Dirk Serries on 2016's Resolution Heart under the Jesu moniker.


The Apple Never Falls Far From The Tree
Format: Cat #: Year: Label:
(2x12") LPTF052G 2010 Tonefloat Recordings
(Digital) ARECTF01 2011 Avalanche Recordings
(Digital) ARECTF01 2021 Avalanche Recordings

Track Listing
1. (5:34) A1
2. (6:49) A2
3. (4:51) A3
4. (4:08) B1
5. (8:48) B2
6. (4:58) B3
7. (4:02) C1
8. (2:10) C2
9. (11:27) C3
10. (5:04) D1
11. (4:44) D2
12. (4:10) D3
13. (3:36) D4
Notes
* Released the 10th of October, 2010, this deluxe gatefold picture sleeve was issued in a limited run of 500. 300 were released on green vinyl, 125 on clear and 75 on marbled.
* Digital version released the 28th of April, 2011. Remastered for a digital re-issue, released the 2nd of April, 2021.


My Body Is A Dying Machine
Format: Cat #: Year: Label:
(Digital) AREC019 2013 Avalanche Recordings

Track Listing
1. (6:26) Gravity
2. (5:26) My Body Is A Dying Machine
3. (7:29) Black Dollars
4. (5:32) A Slight Return
5. (5:58) My Body Is A Dying Machine (Live)
Notes
* Digital-only release compiling studio versions of tracks Final played live between 2005 and 2010. The exception is the final track which was recorded live in Colmar, France on the 3rd of June, 2006.


Burning Bridges Will Light Your Way
Format: Cat #: Year: Label:
(Digital) AREC022 2013 Avalanche Recordings

Track Listing
1. (9:00) Burning
2. (11:18) Bridges
3. (11:51) Will
4. (11:41) Light Your
5. (13:04) Way
Notes
* Digital-only release issued on the 18th October, 2012. Material recorded between 2009-2010 using guitar, voice and tape loops only.


Infinite Guitar 4
Format: Cat #: Year: Label:
(3xCD) AREC025 2013 Avalanche Recordings
(Digital) AREC025 2013 Avalanche Recordings

Track Listing
1. (18:35) 1
2. (26:50) 2
3. (25:01) 3
4. (33:28) 4
5. (41:05) 5
6. (58:31) 6
Notes
* Released the 26th of September, 2013, this was issued as a very limited (only 150 copies) digipak triple CD as well as digitally. This features some of the longest songs in Justin's vast catalogue of releases.


Black Dollars
Format: Cat #: Year: Label:
(2x12") DNFIN01 2015 Downwards
(Digital) n/a 2015 Downwards

Track Listing
1. (5:25) My Body Is A Dying Machine
2. (6:15) Flow River Flow
3. (6:25) Gravity
4. (5:02) The World Is Not Waiting For You
5. (5:55) The Eternal Daydreamer
6. (5:31) A Slight Return
7. (7:28) Black Dollars
8. (5:58) My Body Is A Dying Machine (Live)
Notes
* 2x12" LP containing all of My Body Is A Dying Machine and a trio of newer songs. Set for release in September of 2015 but did not release/ship until several months later. Limited to 300 copies on clear vinyl.


Live Reprocessed | Birmingham 2009
Format: Cat #: Year: Label:
(Digital) AREC 037 2016 Avalanche Recordings

Track Listing
1. (34:16) A
2. (36:45) B
3. (28:50) C
4. (34:46) D
Notes
* Digital-only release of a live performance from the UK in 2009. "Reprocessed post performance. 2 hours 15 minutes (2xCD duration) of reduced, thick, semi static heavy ambient drone."


Live Marseille 2009
Format: Cat #: Year: Label:
(CDR) AREC 043 2019 Avalanche Recordings
(Digital) AREC 043 2019 Avalanche Recordings

Track Listing
1. (38:43) Untitled
Notes
* Highly-limited release made specifically for Godflesh and Final live shows in August of 2019. Limited to 100 on "pro-duped CDr", this was released digitally in September of the same year.


Live Incubate
Format: Cat #: Year: Label:
(Digital) AREC 047 2020 Avalanche Recordings

Track Listing
1. (28:00) Live Incubate Part 1
2. (28:54) Live Incubate Part 2
Notes
* Released the 18th of June, 2020 as a pay-as-you-like, digital-only release. This was recorded at the Incubate Festival in the Netherlands in September of 2010.


You Couldn't mean Any Less
Format: Cat #: Year: Label:
(Digital) SIGE 095 2020 Sige Records

Track Listing
1. (5:46) Meaning Less
2. (6:31) Meaning Full
3. (6:01) Meaning
4. (6:52) You Couldn't Mean Any Less
Notes
* Four-song Final EP, the first new material in over half a decade. Issued the 4th of September, 2020, proceeds from this and other Sige Records releases were to be donated to several beneficiary organizations


Oblivion Vol. 1
Format: Cat #: Year: Label:
(Digital) AREC059 2021 Avalanche Recordings

Track Listing
1. (21:37) a
2. (25:11) b
Notes
* Recorded live in November 2021, this is a digital-only release issued on Avalanche Recordings in early December 2021.


Oblivion Vol. 2
Format: Cat #: Year: Label:
(Digital) AREC060 2022 Avalanche Recordings

Track Listing
1. (12:01) 0
2. (12:08) 00
3. (16:11) 000
Notes
* Digital-only, pay-as-you-like release recorded by Justin in 2010/2022 and released on 11 January, 2022. This is part two of the Oblivion recordings which are harsh, power-electronics releases.


Expect Nothing And The Kingdom Will Be Yours
Format: Cat #: Year: Label:
(Digital) AREC061 2022 Avalanche Recordings

Track Listing
1. (11:08) ENATKWBY 1
2. (7:26) ENATKWBY 2
3. (3:18) ENATKWBY 3
4. (5:48) ENATKWBY 4
5. (10:08) ENATKWBY 5
6. (6:08) ENATKWBY 6
7. (7:52) ENATKWBY 7
Notes
* Recorded in 2015 & 2022, this is a digital-only offering which is described as, "Dream noise/Noise ambient; obliterated slow motion melodies shrouded in dense fog..." Released 4 February, 2022.


It Comes To Us All
Format: Cat #: Year: Label:
(12") ALT67 2022 Alter
(CD) ALT67CD 2022 Alter
(Digital) ALT67 2022 Alter

Track Listing
1. (5:22) Untitled
2. (5:24) Untitled
3. (5:54) Untitled
4. (5:10) Untitled
5. (5:26) Untitled
6. (4:59) Untitled
7. (5:27) Untitled
8. (3:41) Untitled
Notes
* Set for release 20 May, 2022, this will come out on limited vinyl and limited CD. The former is available in transparent light blue (400 copies) and blue smoke (100 copies). The CD version is limited to 200 copies only and is delivered in a miniature LP style spined wallet. The more ambient-based album will also be available digitally.


I Am The Dirt Under Your Fingernails
Format: Cat #: Year: Label:
CD FDCD140 2022 Fourth Dimension Records
2x12" FD2LP142 2023 Fourth Dimension Records

Track Listing
1. (5:03) IATDUYF 1
2. (6:35) IATDUYF 2
3. (10:49) IATDUYF 3
4. (7:21) IATDUYF 4
5. (5:11) IATDUYF 5
6. (5:07) IATDUYF 6
7. (6:03) IATDUYF 7
8. (9:51) IATDUYF 8
9. (4:31) IATDUYF 9
Notes
* Released in August of 2022 through Fourth Dimension Records. This nine-track release "violently pushes us through a murky world of suffocating textures, crepuscular guitars, serrated noise and what appear to be random bursts of sawmill grind which together create the perfect backdrop to today's newscape."
* CD version was limited to 400 and released in October of 2022. Double-vinyl release scheduled for the first half of 2023 but slipped into spring of 2024. This is limited to 300. Five test pressings exist.


Oblivion Vol. 3
Format: Cat #: Year: Label:
Digital AREC064 2022 Avalanche Recordings

Track Listing
1. (35:39) OBLIVION 3A
2. (38:50) OBLIVION 3B
Notes
* The third entry into the Oblivion series was also a digital-only, pay-as-you-like release issued on the 2nd of December, 2022. Two lengthy, brash tracks put this runtime over 70 minutes. Justin's description: "Noise from and for the void..." Cover image is not the traditional square ratio - see larger version.


Oblivion 0
Format: Cat #: Year: Label:
Digital AREC070 2023 Avalanche Recordings

Track Listing
1. (21:19) Year 0
2. (13:22) Year 00
3. (12:30) Year 000
Notes
* Digital, pay-as-you-like release issued 5th of May, 2023. This is the fourth entry into the Oblivion series


Ravine Of Spears
Format: Cat #: Year: Label:
Digital n/a 2023 n/a
(12") ? 2023 Unknown

Track Listing
1. (12:07) Slow Day
2. (12:19) Mummified Money
3. (10:07) We Were Never Seen Again
4. (11:52) Vault
Notes
* Collaboration with Richard Ramirez, the American experimental-noise musician whose vast discography rivals that of Justin himself. A member of Black Leather Jesus and countless other projects, Ramirez has collaborated with numerouos other genre staples. This project was detailed as: "two of the most legendary industrial noise artists break down and grind into dust with mortar and pestle each other's sounds, thoughts, and silence into a textural collapse that could very well be the discovery of new kinds of static, new kinds of fuzz and new kinds of words that might never be spoken but fall into the ravine of spears."
* Issued 29 September, 2023 digitally with a vinyl pressing expected November of the same year. The later is described: "Grim recycled board with spot gloss jacket and inner print on cleear vinyl." No label was attached to the announcement.


What We Don't See
Format: Cat #: Year: Label:
Digital n/a 2024 Room40
(CD) ? 2024 Room40

Track Listing
1. (?) Bodyless
2. (9:02) Only In Dreams
3. (?) Inbetween You
4. (?) Your Bit Of Sky
5. (?) Behind Me
Notes
* Five-song recording set for release 31 May, 2024. Issed on a limited CD which featured an embossed, monochrome printed and matte laminate sleeve as well as an insert card. Also available digitally.
* Justin's description of this release is as follows: "The theme of this recording is the invisible world, and one's (my) need for it.

It's necessary for me, this idea of the invisible world, if I am to function on a daily basis. I find comfort in knowing that this is all not just us here and now, that there's something else around us. That there's something within us, that isn't just this frail skin and bones and the immediate environments we drag ourselves around.

I am sure since I was a child, that within me I am many, I am more than this.

I surely can't be just this, so I am motivated by the fantasy and/or promise of more..."



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